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Your pessimism re: regulation seems to rely on general premises re infuence on gov. etc.
But there are places w. effective regulation. e.g. Canada maintained robust capital reserve requirements and their banks haven't melted down in anything like US fashion.
I'd like to know whether your claim is perfectly general. And if so, how do you account for e.g. Canada?
From my POV you seem to be participating in the general 'government is never the solution' culture that kept us from having the type of sensible oversight that was in place right above the border.
p.s. sorry bout your run-in w. Leiter. I study a phil. + think it's nice to have folk trying to bring philosophy to a wider audience...
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Steve as "The Financial Markets"
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